Manhattan Beach

Resource Information

The work Manhattan Beach represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch (Open with Limited Services). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Manhattan Beach

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Egan

Creator

• Egan, Jennifer

Author

• Egan, Jennifer

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Irish Americans -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- Fiction
• Navy-yards and naval stations -- United States -- Fiction
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Women divers -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Fiction
• Young women -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Organized crime -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Corruption -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3555.G292

LC item number

M36 2017b

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography